San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-21
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

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societies among the students, and the
usual college societies will have TO &c
by the board.
The Philadelphia Bullitin calls Secre-
tary FsirchiId's attention to the amount
OF fraudulent Importation of iron and
steel going on. Why should Fairchild
trouble himself. He is free trader,
and 1t Is q good thing to have goods
come into the United States duly free.
THERE is always q back-action move
ment to all attempts to force public SEN
timent into channels, for which 1t is not
prepared. The attempt. to pull millin-
ial fruit before II is ripe, has often been
tried, but has never succeeded.
THE national encampment of the
Grand army of the republic occurs at
st. Louis next September. The sum Of
$780, 600 was required to be raised In
that city to meet expenses, and the first
days canvass netted $4,000. The Big
Bridge city may be slow, but this does
not show IL.
The man who rises to exolalm, "Be-
fore the waxing and the waning of
many more moons, the fence-straddlers
on the prohibition question will be CON-
PEELED to get down on one side or the
other" does not grasp the situation. The
fenoe-straddler sits there until the pro-
cession goes by, then gets down on the
side upon which the largest crowd is.
There's millions In 1t.
The American ladies have a genuine
sister Of royalty on their shores. No
less a person than her most gracious and
sun-burned majesty, Queen Kapiolsni,
Of AIItln hn 10 70
Victoria's jubilee, to pay her respects
In person on that suspicious occasion.
The most charming and dusky Princess
Liliokalini, accompanies the August
sovereign of the Hawaiis.
LIEUTENANT DANENHAUER falls a vic
tim to the insane desire for verifying
the theory Of an open polar sea. His
sufferings on that terrible north pole ex-
petition unsettled his mind, and he died
Of polar phoDia as certainly as though
he had persisted In the Arctic Toe.
MRS. JOHN L. SULLIVAN is a conspicu-
Gus Christian. Not conspicuous in the
John l.. sense of making a public ex-
hibition Of her virtues, but In the sense
Of helping the needy, holding up the
fallen, and assisting those who are ready
to faint by the way. Her missionary ef-
forts have failed on John hitherto, but,
like true wife, she sticks to him "for
better for worse" and has hopes.
The foolish statement made by some
Texas journals TO the effect that Lady
Collin Campbell was the daughter Of the
Woodruff woman, no doubt grew out OF
the similarity of names. Mrs. Victoria
woodruff married Col. Blood, tempo
rarily. Mrs. Collin Campbell was Miss
Blood. The Claflin women, Tennessee
C., and Victoria, went to England some
years since and both are now very re-
specially married.
IT is highly probable that the solution
Of the republican nomination for Presi-
dent will be to give the party neither
Blaine nor Sherman, but compromise
candidate. Blaine is too strong man
to be nominated. He follows the fate of
Webster and Clay and Calhoun in that
regard. He favors Allison before Sher-
man, and Allison would unite all wings
OF the republican army. That means
republican president.
The jewellers along the banks of the
middle Brszos gather In interested
knots to watch the driftwood wheeling
by, indicating heavy rains above, az d
wonder when the good time will come
In which deluging rains will fall I'm their
neighborhood. The long drouth seems
broken but soaking rsins are strangely
delayed.
THERE is a great cry over the southern
California boom. 1t should be remem-
bered that Is boom for sale and every
thing In that region in the way of prop
erty is offered for sale. The simple fact
Is that the southern California climate is
an admirable one to sojourn in, but an
execrable one to remain in, permanent
ly. 1t is very productive region under
irrigation, but otherwise sterile.
IT is now In order for papers that are
afraid OF the hereafter and have little
moral courage Of their own, to roost
high on the prohibition fence. A con-
temporary says that the Waco Exami-
ner distances all others in getting a
square seat on the highest fence post"
III this be true, the Examiner must have
found mighty high post.
IT is entirely too late to kick against
government ownership OF telegraphs
and railways, as well as mails. The
ownership Of the telegraphs OF this
country is sure TO be assumed by the
government, sooner or later. The peo-
pie cannot afford to have the TRANSMITS
sion OF news so entirely in the hands of
private parties. This condition OF things
will soon be seen as utterly inconsis tent
with the spread Of general intelligence.
and the demand OF the people for govern
mental ownership OF the lines OF COM
municatiOn will have to be complied
with.
AND still the intelligent journals at the
state capital are talking Of the robbery
OF U. s. Paymsster Bust In Wyoming.
The paymaster who fell among thieves
was named ID. N. Bash, and was for sew
eral years paymaster Of Uncle Sans
troops in Texas. This fact has been
beralded far and wide and it is about
time that the tortoise Of the capital
caught on.
The New York Sun, which shines not
for the occupant Of the white house, pre-
fers the following indictment against
Grover Cleveland: "He has made Indi-
ana republican state, almost won Viz
ginia back to the republicans, let the
democrats In the forty-ninth congress
waste the session In aimless chickering's,
cut down the democratic majority In the
hftietn congress, smashed the demo-
cratic party In Illinois and Ohio, weak
ened 1t in New Jersey and West Viz
| ginia, strengthened il nowhere save with
the mugwumps Of Massachusetts. And
yet he hopes for a denomination" This
Is almost as well as solid republican
journal could have said it.
GALVESTON is an awful naughty place.
She has big scandal on her tongue
ready to erupt, and as only q woman's
discretion keeps the matter from becom-
ing public, revelations are confidently
expected. The window Of the revela-
tor overlooks the doOrstone Of the dwell